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Michelle A. Ott Buffalo...
...have to do with civil rights and the rights of national minorities of small peoples to self-determination would be compromised if the West Bank were incorporated into Israel. That, to me, would be very destructive of the fundamental ideals of the Jewish people." Adds Los Angeles Rabbi Jacob Ott: "One successful visit with the President and one warmhearted week with the Jewish community are not conclusive. Begin is still in the testing stage...
...certain skepticism towards Marxists and men notwithstanding, the editors of the Sourcebook, Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, claim to be proponents of what they call "militant pluralism". Consciously eschewing a rigid political stance, Grimstad and Rennie argue that the movement's very strength lies in its ott-bemoaned diversity (to some, incoherence), since "dogmatism and 'correct line' politics are usually the sign of weakness in a political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist...
...Janice Ott, 23, who worked for King County Juvenile Court in nearby Seattle and was known as a very sympathetic person - "the type that would take in stray dogs and cats," a sheriffs lieutenant put it. That attribute may have been fatal: Janice was last seen wheeling her bicycle to the Lake Sammamish parking lot, accompanied by a young man with his arm in a sling. After her disappearance, at least four women recalled that they had been approached that day by an affable stranger who called himself Ted and wore a sling on his arm. Ted asked each woman...
...motif metaphors about snails. When he is pressed by an interviewer's question Grass often answers with a disarming "ah yes but my party is a party of snails." Collecting snails--this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than that...